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SO MANY WARNING SIGNS; TROUBLED YOUNG MAN

(FULL DISCLOSURE:I’m
writing this after having attended Kathy Griffin’s politically and radically incorrect
performance at the Kennedy Center last night, so my mindset is not in a
forgiving mood.I’m fired up about
bullshit.)

Watching Fox News Sunday this morning and sure enough the
terms of the conversation about Dylann Roof included:young man, troubled, disturbed,
deranged.Here’s a short post I penned
on the Huffington Post a couple of days ago:

‪Scott Sorg‪ So
are we going to call him a "terrorist" or a "thug" or
simply a "confused young man?" Let's watch and see. I'm betting the
latter.

So
how brilliant am I? OK, so not
really. This is how the media describes
mass murderers and domestic terrorists when they are White. If you don’t believe me, check out the terms
used to describe James Holmes who killed twelve people at the Century Movie Theater
in Aurora, Colorado, a couple of years ago. When murderers are Black, terms such as
“animals” and “thugs” are used, just as Roof did in his manifesto.

If
you read Roof’s manifesto as I have, you will find that it is not delusional,
doesn’t appear to be the product of a deranged mind nor the product of someone
who has a mental illness.On the
contrary, it is a reasonably cogent explication for why he found it necessary
to kill nine Black people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

Now,
his views, his view of the real world, are indeed delusional and pretty much
mirror the disturbing rants of the radical, far right wing, fascist blogs and
web sites that I’ve visited.(Note: The
NSA must be very confused about my political leanings since I regularly visit
the American Nazi Party and the Tea Party’s home pages as well as Addicting
Info and MoveOn.org’s web sites.)On the
other hand, if you listen to Rush Limbaugh who daily proclaims that “liberals
are destroying America” it’s difficult for me to see all that much daylight
between Rush’s view of the world (which is delusional) and Roof’s.Now, the media doesn’t call Rush “disturbed”
or “deranged” or “troubled,” primarily, I suppose, because as far as I know Rush
hasn’t yet gunned down other human beings.My point, however, is that Rush knows exactly what he’s doing and gets
paid millions annually for it.He’s not
delusional, no one claims that Rush has a mental illness even though his view
that “liberals are destroying America” is unarguably delusional given the past
forty years of conservative rule here in America.

So
why then, when Roof’s world view – like Rush’s – is clearly delusional, the
media somehow pardons Roof as being a “troubled young man?”I’ve never heard George Zimmerman called a
“troubled young man” in the media even though subsequent events in his life do
indeed point in this direction. Trayvon
Martin, on the other hand, was called a thug.Go figure.

And
let’s deal with the “there were warning signs all over the place” that Chris
Wallace declared this morning on Fox News.From what I’ve read so far, Roof
had a couple of brushes with the law over trespassing.But no arrests.His friends – or one friend, at least -have said that he voiced negative opinions
about Black people but theydismissed
them as just words. Roof was drunk, one
friend said.Minor drug use but no
arrests.Alcohol consumption.If these are the signs of a disturbed,
mentally deficient, delusional “young man” then we must also consider all the
hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of other young, White, American youth
who display precisely the same characteristics.Are they all, therefore, potential mass murderers? Is there some other conclusion one can draw?

I’ve
also seen comments about how the very fact that he murdered nine people is
proof that he is insane.Really?Then what about all the other murderers – 14,000
murders are committed annually – in the nation?Are they all insane too?If so,
why, then, don’t they all plead insanity when they come to trial?The insanity plea is used in only 1% of all
criminal cases, is successful 26% of the time and 90% effective when a criminal
has been previously diagnosed with a mental illness.

This
whole “conversation” on Fox, in the press, in the media, simply avoids the
fundamental question of “how and why did this twenty-one year old White man
come to believe that Black people were “taking over the country,” raping White
women, and how and why did he find it necessary to attempt to foment a race war?” So far, the media, politicians, pundits have basically proclaimed: "We'll never know." But this defies rational analysis even with the limited information about Dylann that we know. Dylann Roof is neither insane nor
delusional.Misguided? Yes.Subject to seductive conspiracy
theories?Yes. Too willing to believe
the loony ravings of radical right wing groups? Yes.Too inexperienced to be able separate fact from
fiction?Yes.

But
insane? No.Not insane.

The
answer is staring all of us in the face.It’s not a big mystery.Ask
Rush.He holds many of the same
delusional views as does Dylann Roof and to “pardon” either one of them is to
consciously deny the corrosive influence that Rush, Westboro Baptist Church,
the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, White Aryan Resistance, National
Socialist American Labor Party, etc. have on the minds, thinking and views of
people. Particularly of young
people.

I’m
not buying the deranged, insane, young man.
It’s bullshit. He too, like Rush,
knew exactly what he was doing.

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